Sweet Jane · Cowboy Junkies

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 26 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
SWEET JANE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 67 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-47.

CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweet Jane?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sweet Jane hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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